suspicious - Story 145700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He began to distrust everyone. He found himself increasingly withdrawn, his replies to emails terse, his interactions with colleagues curt. He watched his boss closely, his eyes narrowing as he spoke.

He noticed the small things now. The way the boss always seemed to have a ready explanation, a quick answer. The way his phone would buzz during private moments. He felt as if he could no longer trust his own eyes. The walls of the office seemed to be closing in.

He found himself staring at the security cameras. He felt a strange sort of clarity.

Emotion: suspicious

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.82 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion suspicious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 suspicious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the suspicious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the suspicious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.420
`🤔`	0.415
`🧐`	0.362
`疑`	0.352
`suspicious`	0.352

Suppressed:

`and`	-0.307
`alleviate`	-0.301
`ได้รับการ`	-0.298
`allevi`	-0.285
`mouthful`	-0.284